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Vocabulary
Mass Culture
People
City Life
Immigration
100
An area below a ship's deck. This is where many immigrants slept in while traveling to the New World (America)
What is Steerage?
100
the invention of an automatic typesetting machine which greatly reduced time and the cost of printing.
What is the Linotype?
100
Published the New York Journal.
Who is William Randolph Hearst?
100
Exposed horrible conditions in New York tenements, author of "How the Other Half Lives".
Who is Jacob Riis?
100
The method of transportation that immigrants traveled to the United States?
What is by boat?
200
Poorly built, overcrowded apartment buildings
What are tenements?
200
Cultural activities shared by many people.
What is mass culture?
200
Designed Central Park in New York City, as well as many state and national parks.
Who is Frederick Law Olmsted?
200
The main or biggest problem in big cities.
What is overcrowding?
200
The thought that the lives of immigrants would improve.
What is living in poor conditions?
300
Residential neighborhoods outside of downtown areas
What are suburbs?
300
Public transportation designed to move many people.
What is mass transit?
300
Created the Hull House; became involved in housing safety and sanitation issues, factory inspection, and immigrant rights.
Who is Jane Addams?
300
Diseases that resulted from the lack of sanitation, or unsanitary conditions (I need two of them)
What are influenza, cholera, typhus, or tuberculosis?
300
People who came from Southern and Eastern Europe in the late 1800's to the United States.
Who are New Immigrants?
400
Aid organizations formed by immigrant communities
What are benevolent societies?
400
Giant retail stores.
What are department stores?
400
Reformer at Hull House; visited sweatshops and wrote about problems there.
Who is Florence Kelley?
400
Neighborhood centers in poor areas that offered education, recreation, and social activities.
What are settlement houses?
400
People who came from northern Europe in the mid and late 1800's to the United States.
Who are Old Immigrants?
500
Hot, stuffy workshops in which workers prepared materials for very low wages.
What are sweatshops?
500
Six cities that had at or over 500,000 residents by 1900
What are Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia, New York, St. Louis, and Baltimore?
500
Publisher and added a color comic to the New York World newspaper.
Who is Joseph Pulitzer?
500
A U.S. law that banned Chinese people from immigrating to the United States for 10 years.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?